It is the secret scandal of capitalism that at no point has it been organized primarily around free labor. - David Graeber

Direct action is the insistence, when faced with structures of unjust authority, on acting as if one is already free.

If we insist on defining all human interactions as matters of people giving one thing for another, then any ongoing human relations can only take the form of debts.

How do we create only games that we actually feel like playing, because we can opt out at any time? In the economic field, at least, the answer is obvious. All of the gratuitous sadism of workplace politics depends on one’s inability to say “I quit” and feel no economic consequences.